AWS Engineer, Up to £40,000, Birmingham

A growing platform solutions provider are looking to expand their team with a junior AWS engineer in their close knit team on the outskirts of Coventry. A key candidate will have a willingness to learn and be able to communicate effectively throughout the team.

Benefits

Including being part of an innovative team you will also receive certain benefits including:

• Monthly car allowance
• Training and certifications
• Health and life insurance
• Annual ski trip
• 4 days remote working after a 6 month period

Day to day

As part of the team you will be required to take on certain responsibilities. Developing and supporting our Platform Solutions technical capability covering cloud provision, managed service and bespoke platform components will be a key element in you role as well as providing technical support for our Windchill customers and providing administrative training to customers including supporting PLM delivery projects, covering a range of complex technical activities including installation, upgrade and data migration.

Required Skills

To undergo these responsibilities, you will need certain skills:

• Server admin - in particular Windows Server 2012 / 2016 / 2019 but also potentially Linux
• Database admin - Oracle / SQL Server / PostgreSQL
• Directory servers - Active Directory / OpenDS
• Web servers - Apache / IIS
• Web-based enterprise applications - should be aware of the components and architecture
• Backup and recovery
• Network infrastructure / trouble-shooting
• Cloud provider certifications would be advantageous - esp. AWS / Azure
• Cloud provision - CloudFormation / Terraform, etc.

If this is a job suitable for you please get in contact with me via e-mail: or by phone: and we can discuss further details.

AWS Engineer, Up to £40,000, Birmingham

A growing platform solutions provider are looking to expand their team with a junior AWS engineer in their close knit team on the outskirts of Coventry. A key candidate will have a willingness to learn and be able to communicate effectively throughout the team.

Benefits

Including being part of an innovative team you will also receive certain benefits including:

• Monthly car allowance
• Training and certifications
• Health and life insurance
• Annual ski trip
• 4 days remote working after a 6 month period

Day to day

As part of the team you will be required to take on certain responsibilities. Developing and supporting our Platform Solutions technical capability covering cloud provision, managed service and bespoke platform components will be a key element in you role as well as providing technical support for our Windchill customers and providing administrative training to customers including supporting PLM delivery projects, covering a range of complex technical activities including installation, upgrade and data migration.

Required Skills

To undergo these responsibilities, you will need certain skills:

• Server admin - in particular Windows Server 2012 / 2016 / 2019 but also potentially Linux
• Database admin - Oracle / SQL Server / PostgreSQL
• Directory servers - Active Directory / OpenDS
• Web servers - Apache / IIS
• Web-based enterprise applications - should be aware of the components and architecture
• Backup and recovery
• Network infrastructure / trouble-shooting
• Cloud provider certifications would be advantageous - esp. AWS / Azure
• Cloud provision - CloudFormation / Terraform, etc.

If this is a job suitable for you please get in contact with me via e-mail: or by phone: and we can discuss further details.

Linux System Administrator - Scripting - Award Winning Co.

Here is an opportunity to join an award-winning technology start up In Central London. They are well funded and now hugely revenue generating. They are a leader in their field that have truly revolutionised their industry. Our client has been so successful in their market their product is being utilised by 50 million customers globally and have clients both at government and global crop sector level. Our client receives 1.5 trillion monthly data requests from their customers!

Their infrastructure spans six continents and consists of more than 700 servers as well as third party edge infrastructure. Most of these servers are bare metal, which act as endpoints for speed tests and other measurement traffic. These have very high bandwidth - sometimes 100Gbit/s! Their broader infrastructure uses a mixture of bare metal and cloud-hosted services.

They use MySQL for their smaller databases, and Presto (built on top of Hadoop) for their data warehouse that powers their analytics platform. Their web applications all run on Apache or Nginx, and are written in PHP, with Java and Go in the mix too.

Our Client is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Systems Administrator to join their growing Infrastructure team. The team is responsible for building and supporting the sizeable infrastructure that is the foundation of their services

Apply if you have a strong background in Linux as it is essential for this role.

Requirements:

• Linux server administration background (preferably CentOS / Red hat)
• Shell scripting knowledge
• Experience with administering MySQL servers
• Knowledge of Puppet or a similar automation tool is highly beneficial
• A willingness to be part of on-call rota one week in three

Desirable:

• GitHub experience is beneficial
• Configuring Apache and Nginx experience
• Server monitoring tools experience, such as Nagios
• A good understanding of DNS.
• Open Stack software

Benefits:

• Paid on-call - very stress free on call
• A stimulating working environment in central London
• Opportunity for growth
• Private health care
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days holiday leave per year plus bank holidays
• Training and book budget
• New office
• Choice of hardware
• 12 Work from home days per year
• Season ticket loan

You will gain exposure to:

• Jenkins
• Docker
• Hadoop
• Presto
• Java
• Go
• PHP

Part of this role involves participating in their on-call rota, which you would typically be on once every three weeks. There is extra pay for any days you are on-call, even if you aren't called out.

Linux System Administrator - Scripting - Award Winning Co.

Linux System Administrator - Scripting - Award Winning Co.

Here is an opportunity to join an award-winning technology start up In Central London. They are well funded and now hugely revenue generating. They are a leader in their field that have truly revolutionised their industry. Our client has been so successful in their market their product is being utilised by 50 million customers globally and have clients both at government and global crop sector level. Our client receives 1.5 trillion monthly data requests from their customers!

Their infrastructure spans six continents and consists of more than 700 servers as well as third party edge infrastructure. Most of these servers are bare metal, which act as endpoints for speed tests and other measurement traffic. These have very high bandwidth - sometimes 100Gbit/s! Their broader infrastructure uses a mixture of bare metal and cloud-hosted services.

They use MySQL for their smaller databases, and Presto (built on top of Hadoop) for their data warehouse that powers their analytics platform. Their web applications all run on Apache or Nginx, and are written in PHP, with Java and Go in the mix too.

Our Client is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Systems Administrator to join their growing Infrastructure team. The team is responsible for building and supporting the sizeable infrastructure that is the foundation of their services

Apply if you have a strong background in Linux as it is essential for this role.

Requirements:

• Linux server administration background (preferably CentOS / Red hat)
• Shell scripting knowledge
• Experience with administering MySQL servers
• Knowledge of Puppet or a similar automation tool is highly beneficial
• A willingness to be part of on-call rota one week in three

Desirable:

• GitHub experience is beneficial
• Configuring Apache and Nginx experience
• Server monitoring tools experience, such as Nagios
• A good understanding of DNS.
• Open Stack software

Benefits:

• Paid on-call - very stress free on call
• A stimulating working environment in central London
• Opportunity for growth
• Private health care
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days holiday leave per year plus bank holidays
• Training and book budget
• New office
• Choice of hardware
• 12 Work from home days per year
• Season ticket loan

You will gain exposure to:

• Jenkins
• Docker
• Hadoop
• Presto
• Java
• Go
• PHP

Part of this role involves participating in their on-call rota, which you would typically be on once every three weeks. There is extra pay for any days you are on-call, even if you aren't called out.

Linux System Administrator - Scripting - Award Winning Co.

QA Engineer (manual and automation) needed for a 6-month contract in Edinburgh.

QA Engineer (manual and automation) required for an initial six-month contract with a leading company in Edinburgh city centre to work on a large-scale critical project.

The team is small, but motivated and highly technical, and are looking for a strong Test Engineer to come in and hit the ground running, pull their weight and offer opinions into how to make the testing function more efficient. The role is fast-paced and varied and needs someone who is comfortable handling several projects at once, meaning you'll never be bored!

Moving away from only manual testing, the company have quickly implemented an automation testing function, with a focus on Agile testers who are confident in writing the code (C#) necessary for the automation testing.

One of the key aims is to continue this and help implement a sustainable automation test framework. As a result, experience creating an automation test framework from scratch is necessary.

Day-to-day duties as a Quality Assurance Engineer include writing manual and automation test scripts (and automation test frameworks) from scratch, deciding on functional and non-functional requirements as well as performing exploratory and regression testing.

You'll have most of the following skills:

** Creating automation test frameworks from scratch

** Cucumber, Selenium, Protractor

** Ideally experience with C#, but experience with other languages for automated testing

** Typescript experience would be a bonus!

** Docker

** Agile environment

** Web-based and desktop applications testing

** Cloud services experience

** Continuous testing

Please do apply and get in touch with Erin Donnelly at Cathcart Associates for more details including daily rates.

QA, Quality Assurance, Tester, Test Analyst, Manual, Automation, Agile, Scrum, C#, TypeScript, Selenium, Protractor, Git, Apache Subversion, SVN, TeamCity, Octopus, QA Engineer, Quality Analyst, Test Engineer, Automation, Automated

QA Engineer (manual and automation) needed for a 6-month contract in Edinburgh.

QA Engineer (manual and automation) required for an initial six-month contract with a leading company in Edinburgh city centre to work on a large-scale critical project.

The team is small, but motivated and highly technical, and are looking for a strong Test Engineer to come in and hit the ground running, pull their weight and offer opinions into how to make the testing function more efficient. The role is fast-paced and varied and needs someone who is comfortable handling several projects at once, meaning you'll never be bored!

Moving away from only manual testing, the company have quickly implemented an automation testing function, with a focus on Agile testers who are confident in writing the code (C#) necessary for the automation testing.

One of the key aims is to continue this and help implement a sustainable automation test framework. As a result, experience creating an automation test framework from scratch is necessary.

Day-to-day duties as a Quality Assurance Engineer include writing manual and automation test scripts (and automation test frameworks) from scratch, deciding on functional and non-functional requirements as well as performing exploratory and regression testing.

You'll have most of the following skills:

** Creating automation test frameworks from scratch

** Cucumber, Selenium, Protractor

** Ideally experience with C#, but experience with other languages for automated testing

** Typescript experience would be a bonus!

** Docker

** Agile environment

** Web-based and desktop applications testing

** Cloud services experience

** Continuous testing

Please do apply and get in touch with Erin Donnelly at Cathcart Associates for more details including daily rates.

QA, Quality Assurance, Tester, Test Analyst, Manual, Automation, Agile, Scrum, C#, TypeScript, Selenium, Protractor, Git, Apache Subversion, SVN, TeamCity, Octopus, QA Engineer, Quality Analyst, Test Engineer, Automation, Automated